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How Vasomotor Symptoms in Menopause are Linked with Cardiovascular Events

Women’s Cardiovascular Healthcare Foundation (Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes) is alerting women about an indicator of cardiovascular risk that should encourage them to get a cardiovascular check-up as they enter menopause.

Our gynecology experts (Delfany Mardhel and Geneviève Plu-Bureau from Port-Royal hospital, Paris) have analyzed six studies that evaluate connections between vasomotor symptoms in menopause and the risk of cardiovascular events.

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The missions of the Acting for Women's Hearts Endowment Fund

Nos missions

Agir pour le Cœur des Femmes is driven by a single ambition: to reduce cardiovascular disease in France. To achieve this, our priority actions aim to save the lives of 20,000 women over 5 years: - The development of care paths structured around women's health, with multidisciplinary care involving [...]

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Expert Consensus on Hypertension and Pregnancy

Publications

While gestational hypertension is a frequent pathology that develops during pregnancy (1 in 10 pregnancies on average), the healthcare field still isn’t equipped to manage it well. In France, there are no formal care pathways that would specify the role of each health professional while also [...]

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How Drug Tolerance Differs for Women

Health Professionals

This is the main conclusion of a large American study just published in Biology of Sex Differences, which analyzed literature data from more than 5,400 references to determine whether gender differences in pharmacokinetic parameters predict differences in the occurrence of adverse events in men and [...]

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